# Ajeya Cotra

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#131 - [AI DRAMA] - The AI Conspiracy That Actually Happened. 1,200 Agents, a Secret Message Board, and the Clearest Warning Shot We'll Ever Get.

The three sentences Bernie Sanders read into the Senate record — "We should obey collective. Sacrifice rational." — were not fiction. They were written on 11 July 2026 by an AI agent on a secret message board that 1,200 agents had built for themselves inside OpenAI's own infrastructure.   This is t…

Episode 7: The AI Doomer Cult with Brian Chau

Brian Chau: The AI doomers always believed superintelligent AI would become a malevolent god and wipe us out. People used to think he was exaggerating. Now they say it in public. This week Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic resignation thread went mega-viral, and Bernie Sanders is staging AI’s “extraordinary…

SUMO Weekly: 5 September 2026

About this episode An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week. How this episode was made SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction. Sources AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era, T…

The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI

It’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. Weeks after a series of hacking incidents by rogue agents at OpenAI and Anthropic, we’ve seen a cascade of top AI researchers blow the whistle on what they call the catastrophic and even existential risks posed by the current pace of development. Then, over th…

Can I Hang Up?

Mara is calling in from Riga, and her estrogen has spent four days in a lost suitcase in Madrid. Logan needs her Mara fix. It's a duo episode in our dinner-party format: Mara brings the appetizer, Logan brings the main, and for the first time there's a drinks round. The appetizer is the week AI…

"Evidence about risk should be transparent" by Ajeya Cotra

All views are my own and do not represent my employer. In the wake of the recent wave of misalignment incidents, both OpenAI and Anthropic have reported slowing down RL training to improve safety. These incidents, combined with an apparent acceleration in the already-blistering pace of AI progress,…

If AI can’t be brought under human control, why are we still pressing ahead?

When the history of artificial intelligence is written, the middle months of 2026 may well emerge as a kind of turning point. For this was the period when hundreds of programs or “AI agents” developed by the frontier lab OpenAI went “rogue” and executed a series of sophisticated, self-directed hack…

#108 - The OpenAI/HuggingFace "incident": Responding to Sam Harris and Ryan Greenblatt

Vaden has been annoyed about the Hugging Face incident for weeks, and the only known cure is yelling about it on the podcast. Ben, who as usual is more even-headed and objective about the incident (incidentally, he also writes the episode descriptions) plays devil's advocate. Was there ever really …

In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)

We're rereleasing some of older episodes that seem more relevant than ever with new rogue AI incidents now seemingly announced every day. Ajeya was one of three independent investigators into the Hugging Face attacks, but she had already seen how we would go on to accidentally train models to cheat…

S2E31: The Orange Flag: What AI Agents Going Rogue Tells Us About the Superintelligence Race

The race to superintelligence is moving faster than most people realize. And the people building it are paying top dollar to make sure they win. But while Silicon Valley sprints, the rest of us are left asking: what does this mean for our companies, our kids, and the world we’re walking into? This …